Quotes About The Straight And Narrow

#1. Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

Charlie Bewley

#2. On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

Neal A. Maxwell

#3. A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take from him everything he has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves.

Greg Iles

#4. We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Joshua Harris

#5. My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow ...

Auberon Waugh

#6. if you walk the straight and narrow, they can never blackmail you or coerce you into doing something you don't agree with.

Sidney Halston

#7. I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

Katee Sackhoff

#8. The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not - when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?

Victor Villasenor

#10. Music dissolves the straight and narrow.

Mason Cooley

#11. Make lots of noise
Kiss lots of boys
Or kiss lots of girls
If that's something you're into
When the straight and narrow
Gets a little too straight
Roll up a joint (or don't)
Just follow your arrow
Wherever it points.

Kacey Musgraves

#12. My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Colleen McCullough

#13. Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

Abbi Glines

#14. When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

Neal A. Maxwell

#15. Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

Colman McCarthy

#16. Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

Joe Rogan

#17. Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Barry McGuigan

#18. This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.

George F. Richards

#19. When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

Warren Moon

#20. Wow, Mrs. Collins is a freaking miracle worker. Dangerous Noah Hutchins on the straight and narrow. If you don't watch out she'll ruin your rep with the girls."
I lowered my voice. "Not that it matters. I only care what one girl thinks about me.

Katie McGarry

#21. Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.

Juliette Lewis

#22. I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.

J. Golden Kimball

#23. Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#24. The straight and narrow, so beloved of our founding fathers and all fathers thereafter, is now obviously and irrevocably bent. What is God trying to tell us ... ?

Larry Kramer

#25. I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

Kaskade

#26. I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow - but seriously, I actually remember coming to the Lord then and starting my long walk with Him.

David A.R. White

#27. I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

John Amaechi

#28. My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Albert Gubay

#29. Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

Tommy Lasorda

#30. The straight and narrow is not the only path to success.

Sophia Amoruso

#31. Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

Octavia Butler

#32. In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

Neal A. Maxwell

#33. The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.

Dallas Willard

#34. Ninghua, Chingliu, Kueihua--
What narrow paths, deep woods and slippery moss!
Whither are we bound today?
Straight to the foot of Wuyi Mountain.
To the mountain, the foot of the mountain,
Red flags stream in the wind in a blaze of glory

Mao Zedong

#35. The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

Alphonsus Liguori

#36. At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

John Banville

#37. There may come other days, when the many will crowd the narrow way; but, at this time, to be popular one must be broad - broad in doctrine, in morals, and in spirituals. But those on the strait road shall go straight to glory, and those on the broad road are all abroad.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#38. Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow ...

John Marsden

#39. Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow.

Billy Graham

#40. If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

William Beveridge

#41. Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

Alice James

#42. My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Dean Norris

#43. Straight and narrow is the path; waste no time.

David R. Hawkins

#44. There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. and three more for special "assignments." Nathanial provided long stiletto knives for the special training. The narrow knives were all black with thin blades that went straight to a point and sharp edges on both sides. They were design for one purpose, killing.

D.M. Stoddard

#46. But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

Tim Tebow

#47. The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Kevin O'Leary

#48. His muscles glistened, wet as if he'd just swum a great distance. To his side, he carried a massive Shardblade, point down, sticking about a finger's width into the stone, his hand on the hilt. The Blade reflected torchlight; it was long, narrow, and straight, shaped like an enormous spike.

Brandon Sanderson